Silhouette Studio® V4 | Chapter 6 - Manipulating Images
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6.14 Tracing Options Tracing options can be used to automatically trace imported external images for the purpose of creating cut lines. Silhouette cannot guarantee the quality of images not created by our company nor support any third-party images not offered through the Silhouette Design Store. Silhouette Studio® should not be used to trace licensed or copyrighted images which you do not specifically own. Once you have opened an external image you own (as discussed in Section 3.4), you may open the Tracing options and then click on Select Trace Area. This will allow you to draw a box around the intended area of your imported image you may wish to trace. This selection area once drawn may be adjusted or moved like any other object in the program as you may need to expand or refine the trace area. The trace area selection will provide a preview of the original image with a yellow area overlay where the trace area would be applied according to the Trace Settings filters. These filters will provide a more refined or more liberal application of the intended traced effect depending on the settings selected.
Once the desired tracing effect preview is achieved, you may then opt to apply the trace method by selecting one of the following:
Trace This option will provide a traced line contour around all parts of the yellow preview area displayed. Trace Outer Edge This option will create a traced line around the outer edge of the yellow preview area displayed only and ignore any inner parts that may otherwise be displayed in yellow showing a potential tracing path. Trace and Detach This option will trace the outer edge of the yellow preview areas of the image and detach them from the rest of the background of the raster image.
Trace by Color (Designer Edition) This will trace a single area filled with a solid color. Check ‘Trace all areas with same color’ to trace all instances that color appears.
Magnet Trace (Designer Edition) This will give a magnet tool that will cling to an image while it is being traced. Each mouse click will result in a magnet trace point added to the image. Once the image has been traced, the remaining background will be cropped out.
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